Nanomaterial integrated microfluidic devices for virus analysis

Outbreaks of viral infectious diseases are often devastating, causing illness, disability, death and massive economic loss. Viral infectious diseases can spread rapid and affecting a large population. The high mutation rate of viruses are especially challenging for disease control and surveillance. Point-of-care technologies using microfluidic principles and integrated with nanomaterials promise to meet these challenges of future analysis of viral infectious diseases by providing cost-effective and sometimes enabling technologies with extraordinary portability, high sensitivity, and fast processing speed.